VIDEO // business Q&A - part 3 (Patreon)

Here’s part 3 of the Q&A videos about the business side of being an artist! Again, some people walk by in the hallway behind me, sorry about that. 

 In this video I talk about: 

• Planning and organizing: particularly about weekly / monthly self-reflection to figure out where you’re at and check the balance between client and personal work. 

• Budgeting for fluctuating income 

• Maintaining passion for your art.

Some links based on stuff I mentioned in the video: 

• The friend I mentioned is Rengin Tumer! Find her work here:  https://www.rengintumer.com/ 

• The book that I based my overall organizing approach on is called GRIP and it doesn’t really have an english translation yet but it’s on its way and will hopefully be published soon. The dutch version can be found here: https://gripboek.nl/

• The financial stuff I was talking about is called Financial Independence and there’s more info about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_independence. To be clear, I don’t think this is a realistic path forward for most people since it involves saving a HUGE amount of your income which is just not feasible in a realistic situation. But some of the principles, like lowering your expenses, are really good ones to live by for people who need to brace themselves for income fluctuations! 

I hope you find these useful and can get something out of it! I think I tried to tackle a HUGE range of topics in one go, which might have resulted in some generalistic answers for some of the topics. I would love to do more of these types of videos in the future but then focused on a smaller topic, so I can really dive into the details. Let me know what you thought of this!! Any feedback is welcome. Thanks guys!